Earthenware tea-pot



' E. BENNETT.

EARTHENWARE TEA POT.

No. 273,221. Pate-ntd Feb. 27, 1883'.

ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN BENNETT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

EARTH ENWAR TEA-POT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,221, dated February 27, 1883.

Application filed August 5, 1862. (No model.)

earthenware tea-pots designed to render the same less liable to have their spouts brokenoff.

My invention consists in an earthenware teapot having its spout connected throughoutits length with the body of thepot in a homogeneous manner, and formed with the upper half outside the pot, while the lower half is inside the pot, and provided with perforations for straining the tea from its leaves.

In the drawings, A represents an earthenware tea-pot, whose spout B B is made of the same material, and is connected throughoutits entire length with the side wall of the body of the pot in a homogeneous manner, so that there is no open space whatever intervening between the spout and the bodyof the pot, but the spoutis, on lhe other hand, braced and strengthened by a direct connection throughout its length with the body of the pot.

In constructing the spout, the mode of arranging it is, as shown, to form the upper half of the spout B on the outside of the pot at the smaller upper diameter of the pot, and with nutnerous holes a, to stpain the tea from the leaves, and as thelower portion ofthespout projects inwardly from the inside wall of the teapot a considerable distance, some ofthese holes are placed at the line ofjuncture between the projecting spout portion B and the wall of the pot, so that the tea can drain perfectly from the pot through the spout.

In making use of my invention I may apply the same principles of construction to earthenware coffee-pots, cream and molasses pitchers, and other analogous articles.

With respect to the ornamental design, (shown incidentallyin Fig. 1,) I would state that I reserve the right to claim this in a separate application for a Design Patent which I propose tomake hereafter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is.-- 

